Hi Kent, Just when i think i am getting the clear picture of the interaction of one page with another, an event happens that shatters the comprehension gained. as stated before, being rather new to sharepoint and O365, I imagine I am the cause of these funny events. The tree view isn't helping since often the "view" doesn't seem to be representative of what (how) i thought I was structuring my team site. Some features i believe I am adding as a child of team site appears in tree view as child of my public facing site (I tried "color coding" my teamsite levels (depth), but this didn't help understanding the logic of page placement in the overall site). I then have to reenter teamsite and trickle down to the page in question when i need to , for example transfer info from one page to another. This week end, before finally giving up for the duration of the w.e. out of frustration, a meeting room I had set up, was reset to the default home page of this sub team site, wiping all that I had edited over the weeks (and this without my resetting the site to its original content... And am very certain I haven't initiated this). At other times I can add web parts, but five minutes later, there is no interaction with the "add web part" link in the ribbon. I was experimenting with the PayPal part, to see how I could structure the "checkout", but found the option was not always available for entering the html codes. Inthe share point interface, I dont know what the use of this is since when i open it, i find i cant edit anything anyway... so i go back to O365 when i need to edit (everything is sync-ed...each day when prompted).
Adding to the confusion while this is now understood, is the permissions for visitors: since they can only access the public facing site anyway, why is tis permission level editable in the teamsite? A visitor is a visitor and of course i don't want to bar him in my Public facing site. Just saying.
In my line of work, I could talk about many things, taking for granted that everyone understands my logic, terminologies, abreviations, etc. but unfortunately the fact of the matter is that most would be lost in a matter of minutes. So we have to democratize the vocabulary to appeal to the masses. Though I am sure the Enterprise platform is mostly set up by IT pros, I am pretty much convinced most users of the SB P plans are operated by neophytes as myself, that need to have a clear view of the inner workings of that plan. Render it efficient for the masses, which I believe is the targeted business clientèle. To keep in mind that our knowledge base may be very complete in our respective specialisations, but at different levels in the IT/server/Platforms; our second (and some times imposed) specialty: IT.
I understand there are many very competent professionals that can help setting up and running the platform, but one very important reality in these dire times, is the limited availability of funds to invest when a small business or a startup one. From the posts I have read I know this is a reality, because the topic of out of the box is often mentionned.
So all this being said, I am not quitting O365 or SP, I'll just report my schedule to accomodate my miscomprehension of the platforms, putting some projects on hold until i can get some sense into this thick head of mine.
clement